American Book

Американская Книга о "Мире После Америки"

& Post-American Books

Third Wing of the Big Book

The beauty (or curse) of web-publishing is that you never know how the readers "visit" your book. Nothing linear about hyper-texts: Part One Self became a book by itself (could be read last) and Part Two The Outside -- first. I have another name for it -- Theology of Technology. It is important for me that between the two lies the
Third Zone, which I named "America" -- a strange place with the opposite attributes of being as big as the universe and a dividing line between the Internal and the External.

In the past many books were written for one reader. Yes, my fellow writers, a king or even a prince would commission some philosopher to write on a subject -- and I follow the same tradition. I write for one reader -- myself.

There nothing paradoxical about it; after all I am the one who pays the writer for his time!

My royal means are limited and I can't ask my court writer for a speedy work. I pay when I have money, he writes when he has time. And if he does some rewrites, it is only out of his charitable spirit.

We both are busy; he has no time to write, I have no time to read what he writes.

Well, we thought that will have more time in 1999... and I didn't connect the pages to the rest of my web domain. Fools, we have less time than ever before!

Therefore, I called my webmaster and this craftsman spent several hours of his valuable time making hyper-links so the notes (not chapters, of course), could be seen by the world.

Was it wise? Time will tell.

BTW, the Statue of Liberty was placed on this page by the webmaster, this man has no much brains.

No, I am serious. There are several people involved in this project -- one thinks, another writes, third types and so on. They all have their own needs and wants and it's not easy to get them together. You know, you are in the same position. It took me a year to force some of them to read what I wrote and placed to the web. You see, I rather read good books, than my own. It doesn't make sense read your own writing, don't you think?

When will I finish them? Never. I just will go on with writing my books.